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About Ralph Banks, Sr.
A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor # A005729
- Capt Ralph Banks, Sr Find A Grave Memorial# 61065025
- Coldwater Cemetery, Also known as: Coldwater United Methodist Church Cemetery, Elberton, Elbert County, Georgia, USA
Ralph Banks Sr. is the son of Thomas Banks of Mantapike, Caroline County, Virginia, from a distinguished line of early Virginia settlers. The Banks Family is detailed in the book Banks of Elbert by Elbert Banks, M.D., which describes a distinguished ancestry in Britain and Europe. Banks County is named for Dr. Richard Banks of Homer, the brother of Ralph Banks Jr., and early physician in Northeast Georgia who treated all citizens, including Native Americans and the poor with skill and dignity.
From the Ralph Banks Family Bible, quoted in Banks of Elbert page 61-62, third edition:
I, Ralph Banks, was married to my wife, Rachel, on Thursday, 27th of November 1788.
I, Ralph Banks, was born Oct. 21st, 1757.
Rachel, my wife, was born May 6th, 1769.
Son Thomas A. was born on Dec. 19th, 1789.
Son Willis was born April 23rd, 1791.
Son James J. was born April 5th, 1792.
Daughter Sally was born May 5th, 1793.
Son Richard was born October 23rd, 1794.
Son Ralph was born April 6th, 1796.
Son John was born October 27th, 1797.
Daughter Mary J. was born August 16th, 1799.
Son Dunstan was born December 10th, 1800.
Daughter Priscilla was born September 3d, 1802.
Son Henry was born November 2d, 1804.
Son Lemuel was born January 8th, 1810.
Son Marion was born June 23rd, 1813.
Note: The book Banks of Elbert provides a comprehensive survey of the Banks County family, with special emphasis on the descendants of Ralph Banks and Rachel Alston Jones Banks of Elbert County, Georgia.
SLAVES OF RALPH BANKS
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Probate Inventory, about 1823
Four years later, according to the Inventory and Appraisal of the Estate of Ralph Banks in Elbert County, Georgia (date not given, but presumably around the time of his death in 1823), he owned 62 slaves. 58 of these people are listed by first name in this record, identified as man, woman, boy, or girl; plus an unnamed wife and three children (another 4 slaves) are included in the list. "Color" is not assigned though some men are identified as "negro." All are given "values," along with other "property" such as livestock and furniture. [3]
Jim (bef.1805-)$550
Terry (bef.1805-)$500
Hizziah (bef.1823-)$400
Lucy (bef.1823-)and her child Rachel $500
Rachel (bef.1823-)
Nancy (bef.1823-)$300
Jestin (bef.1823-)$230
Elzah (abt.1823-)$250
Will (bef.1807-), his wife Nancy, and their youngest child Bill $600
Nancy (bef.1807-)
Bill (bef.1823-)
Solomon (bef.1805-)$550
Larkin (bef.1805-)$600
Bill (bef.1805-)$600
Kitt (bef.1805-)$500
Jim (bef.1805-)$300
Jess (bef.1805-)$550
Pleasant (bef.1805-)$550
Ruben (bef.1823-)$350
Fanny (bef.1823-)and Edmond, a girl and a boy $600
Edmond (bef.1823-)
Oliver (bef.1823-)and Dorothy, "boys" $400
Dorothy (bef.1823-)
Izza (bef.1823-) and her children Patience and Burton $650
Patience (bef.1823-)
Burton (bef.1823-)
Bill (bef.1805-) and his wife Patience $100
Patience (bef.1805-)
Johnson (bef.1805-) and his wife Fanny $900*
Fanny (bef.1805-)
David (bef.1823-)$350
Martin (bef.1805-) and his wife Sill plus unnamed child $1050
Sill (bef.1807-)
Peter (bef.1805-), unnamed wife & unnamed two youngest $850
Ilnead (bef.1805-)$500
Windsor (bef.1805-)$500
Harry (bef.1805-)$550
Link (bef.1805-)$550?
Webster (bef.1805-)$500
Samuel (bef.1805-)$500
Ann (bef.1807-) and her two children Hannah and Linzy $700
Hannah (bef.1823-)
Linzy (bef.1823-)
Winnah (bef.1807-) and her two children Harriet and Mary Ann $750
Harriet (bef.1823-)
Mary Ann (bef.1823-)
Dolly (bef.1805-)$250
Milly (bef.1807-) and her youngest child Betty $450
Betty (bef.1823-)
Elzah (bef.1823-)$450
Nancy (bef.1805-)$300
Stephen (bef.1823-)$400
Elijah (bef.1823-)$350
Mariah (bef.1823-)$300
Weston (bef.1823-)$100?
Wiley (-bef.1823)$275
Thompson (bef.1823-)$325
Peggy (bef.1823-)$250
Will and Testament, 1823
In his Will and Testament (recorded 9 November, 1823), Ralph Banks bequeathed land and 23 slaves by first name (along with some of their unnamed family members) -- most of them matching, or approximately matching, some of the names listed above, from the probate inventory -- to four of his sons and to his wife. He appointed two of his sons, Thomas Banks and John Banks, the Executors of his Will.
Five named slaves he left to his successors do not match those in the probate inventory. All the other unnamed remaining slaves not left to the three sons and wife were "put into the possession" of Ralph's other ten children who survived him.
This means that of the 62 slaves listed in the probate inventory, only 18 of them through the Will can be traced by name to the next slave owner:
Ralph left to his son Marion Banks (1813-1886):
Bill (bef.1805-) and his wife Patience
Patience (bef.1805-)
(Kitt (bef.1805-)), wife Izzy and boys Larkin, Pleasant, Jessie, Reuben
(Larkin (bef.1805-))
(Pleasant (bef.1805-))
(Jess (bef.1805-))
(Ruben (bef.1823-))
Izzy (no closely matching name found in probate document)
Ralph left to his son Ralph Banks Jr. (1796-1871):
(Linzy (bef.1823-))
Ralph left to his sons Henry Banks (1804-1846) and Lemuel Banks (1806-bef.1857):
Solomon (bef.1805-)
Winney and her child Item (no closely matching names found in probate document)
Ralph left to his wife Rachel Alston (Jones) Banks (1769-1851):
Johnson (bef.1805-) and his wife Fanny
Fanny (bef.1805-)
Milly (bef.1807-)
Harry (bef.1805-)
Webster (bef.1805-)
Thompson (bef.1823-)
The following listed in the Will as being left to Rachel have no closely matching names in the probate inventory of the same year:
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Ralph Banks, Sr.'s Timeline
1757 |
October 21, 1757
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Granville, North Carolina Formed 1712 From Carolina, United States
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1789 |
December 19, 1789
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North Carolina Formed 1712 From Carolina
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1791 |
April 23, 1791
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Elbert Co., GA
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1792 |
April 5, 1792
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North Carolina Formed 1712 From Carolina
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1793 |
May 5, 1793
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North Carolina Formed 1712 From Carolina
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1794 |
October 23, 1794
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Elbert County Georgia
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1796 |
April 6, 1796
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North Carolina Formed 1712 From Carolina
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1797 |
October 27, 1797
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Elbert County, Georgia, United States
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1799 |
August 10, 1799
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North Carolina Formed 1712 From Carolina
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